Act Our Age

David, Andrew, and Harrison write, sing, and produce a Billboard-topping pop song in under 30 minutes.

David, Harrison, and Andrew are joined by skin care expert and fiancée Amanda Schulte to indulge in a live, bespoke facial routine leaving them poreless and disemboweled.

Harrison, Andrew, and David reveal their Spotify decade-in-review analytics to much shame and realize that only Andrew has respectable music taste. In a data-defying result of the century, it is revealed that Harrison's top genre is 'rock'. Feat: Lin Manuel Miranda and Carly Rae Jepsen.

David leads Harrison and Andrew in a book club discussion of the hit YA novel Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan. Points of debate include whether Andrew is literate, the confrontational role sexuality has in today's YA literature, and the Hot Dog Girl sequel.

In a true tour de force spanning three months, Andrew, Harrison, and David watch the entirety of the uncritically acclaimed reality series Paradise Hotel and break down its events (and lack there of) in incredible detail.

David, Harrison, and Andrew kick off Season 3 with their personal assessments of every personal assessment on the internet. From the Myers-Briggs to the Enneagram to a special surprise test at the end, they are finally free to find their inner truth (for a nominal fee of $20).

The boys of Act Our Age explore Disney Studios’ seminal, tier-2 classic film Hercules. Is it a feminist film? Does Greek mythology hold any relevance in a late 90s America? What happened to James Wood? Listen to go that distance.

After listening to a podcast dissecting the postmodernism of Tom Six's magnum opus, the Human Centipede trilogy, the boys of Act Our Age (played by Harrison, David, and Bank) embark on an experiment of their own to recreate the Three Pedes in a Pod (First Sequence).

David, Andrew, and Harrison hang out by discussing the two most important sports of our time: 2000 pop songs and college basketball. Learn the correct pronunciation of Gonzaga, the exact fan base of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”, and the best places for family casual dining.

Poetry experts David, Andrew, and Harrison give live readings of their latest masterpieces inspired by their muses and good friends David, Andrew, and Harrison, followed by in-depth discussions and analyses.

David, Harrison, and Andrew critique their three-course meal at the world renowned Taco Bell eatery in the Upper East Side (of NYC, Chicago, and Boulder respectively).

David and official AOA fashion advisor Ali Lisnow dig deep into the lives of Andrew and Harrison to give them wardrobe, emotional, and personal brand makeovers.

Cereal is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Andrew Morgenthaler, David Schwartz, and Harrison Stamell, narrating a cereal-related story over one episode. The episode was co-created and is co-produced by Morgenthaler, Schwartz and Stamell and is not developed by This American Life.

David, Harrison, and Andrew close out season one by revisiting clips from some of their favorite episodes of the podcast including the viral laser tag episode, their transformative experience as Keebler elves, and their 20-minute award-winning mime performance.

In this episode, David, Harry, and Bank are joined by certified Bro™ Nick Johnson who majored in fantasy football during his college fraternity years. Nick guides the AOA crew through their first fantasy football drafts and David gets one step closer to becoming the bucket-hat-wearing bro he has always dreamed of.

David, Harrison, and Andrew hang out by teaching eachother about various topics through a round of “Tell and Tell.” It’s like “Show and Tell”, but on a Podcast™. With a strictly enforced 8min time limit per lecture.

David, Harrison, and Andrew hang out by answering relationship questions submitted by our varied and international fan base in the style of Dear Abby. Harrison ultimately discovers a mathematical formula that answers what love is really about.

David, Harrison, and Andrew hang out with the piscean, four-dimensional witch changeling formerly known as Kevin McDonald who gives everyone a tarot card reading. Special appearance made by King Papajohns, who can be heard in the guise of echos throughout the episode. (Note: this episode not yet sponsored by Papa Johns.)

David, Andrew, and Harrison hang out by talking about sports and the latest sports highlights and the newest news regarding sports.

David, Andrew, and Harrison hang out by playing Top Four™ – the proprietary game introduced to us by Laura Lapidus – where they individually rank four trivially controversial subjects to determine who will be the largest on the AOA album cover.

David, Andrew, and Harrison hang out in a WhisperBar™ where they discuss the merits of ASMR, sit on 40” stools, Google things on a typewriter, and watch a classic tennis match.

In this episode David, Andrew, and Harrison form a pop band, develop their pop star personas, write a song, and all collectively quit the band.

In this episode, David, Harrison, and Andrew are finally joined by their illustrious producer Arlin Ladue who sets out on a mission to identify which of the three hosts is carrying the podcast thus far and most deserving of the being center in the eventual Act Our Age photoshoot.

Bank, David, and Harrison hire a corporate sponsor to help them tell better stories by providing corporate music, and then they tell their stories to each other. They hope they sound better. Sponsored by our Corporate Sponsor.™

David and Andrew discuss when they first met, David’s early obsession with American Apparel sweatshirts, their muppet doppelgangers, why Andrew is obsessed with genre fiction, and discover that Andrew doesn’t really know what a five act structure is. Also: where is Arlin?

David and Andrew win the lottery, invent a sleep walking wearable device, revisit their plan to make a Marauders map of Tufts University’s library, realize that Andrew still has no idea what a five act structure is, and discuss the merits of goals and the self-help phenomenon. Also: still no Arlin.

David and Andrew bring on a relative Hollywood expert and literal relative of Andrew, Matt Morgenthaler, to discuss Avril Lavigne’s label as “most dangerous celeb for internet malware,” the historic Emmy’s, why TV is succeeding where movies are failing, how movies are becoming more like TV, and the future of media content. Also: Is Arlin a real person?

David and Andrew discuss two groundbreaking events: the release of Taylor Swift's sixth studio album Reputation and the development of CRISPR gene editing technology.

David and Andrew take a look back at the year in pop culture, technology, and music.

In this episode, Andrew and David are joined by the latest addition to the Act Our Age cast – Harrison Hoblitzelle Stamell – where they dissect the postmodernism of Tom Six's magnum opus, the Human Centipede trilogy, which neither Andrew nor Harrison have really seen.

David and Andrew breakdown the last several months of pop music, rave over Kesha without the $, forget the names of the boys from 1D, pick their favorite pop albums of 2017, take a deep dive into Taylor Swift’s ‘…Ready for it?’ music video, and Andrew writes an angry letter.